"Criminal Court while convicting an accused for commission of offence under Section 138 of the Act, cannot ignore the compensatory aspect of remedy and the
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"A contractual engagement by its very nature carries no promise of permanence. It begins with consent and ends by the terms to which the parties
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"The law will come to the aid of a person in peaceful and settled possession by injuncting even a rightful owner from using force or taking
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"Review jurisdiction is confined to correcting an error that is apparent on the face of the record — one that is self-evident and does not
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"The scrutiny on the subjective opinion or satisfaction of the authorized officer to arrest the person could not be a matter of judicial review, in
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"The doctrine of promissory estoppel cannot be invoked to compel a statutory authority to act contrary to the governing statutory framework or to confer a
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"Section 260-A does not confer a general appellate jurisdiction upon the High Court to reappreciate evidence or substitute its own view for the view concurrently taken
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"It is well settled that the filing of a Suit for eviction under the general law, itself amounts to a notice to quit, upon the
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"The proceeding for declaring the borrower as a wilful defaulter has its source in statute and Reserve Bank of India guidelines. It is substantially independent
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"Once a Court grants ad-interim/interim relief, it is to be necessarily presumed that grant of such ad-interim / interim relief is predicated on the urgency exhibited
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"The existence of a column in a form cannot confer substantive jurisdiction that the parent statute withholds; a Guideline framed by the NMC... must yield
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"Under no circumstances, the respondent-father, as long as he is facing prosecution, can be considered to be a person entitled to custody of the children."
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"We hold that the Tender Years Doctrine cannot be applied as a determinative principle in the present case, and that the issue of custody must
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"The reticence of a victim of a sexual offence, or of a person compelled to witness one, may spring from fear, from shame, from social
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"The appointment of a legal aid counsel and the recording of the complete deposition of the star prosecution witness on the self-same day, without the
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"The power of alternate sentencing to cover the hiatus between 14 years and death, cannot be applied by the Sessions Courts. Hence, the sentence of life
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"The constitutional prohibition contained in Article 311(1) is attracted only where the order of dismissal or removal is passed by an authority subordinate in rank to
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"The constitutional prohibition contained in Article 311(1) is attracted only where the order of dismissal or removal is passed by an authority subordinate in rank to
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"The investigating officer or the Special Juvenile Police Unit shall engage the services of an expert in child and adolescent psychiatry/clinical psychology in consultation with
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"The police machinery cannot be utilised for the purpose of holding the husband at ransom so that he could be squeezed by the wife at
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"Under no circumstances, the respondent-father, as long as he is facing prosecution, can be considered to be a person entitled to custody of the children."
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"We hold that the Tender Years Doctrine cannot be applied as a determinative principle in the present case, and that the issue of custody must
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"The reticence of a victim of a sexual offence, or of a person compelled to witness one, may spring from fear, from shame, from social
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"The appointment of a legal aid counsel and the recording of the complete deposition of the star prosecution witness on the self-same day, without the
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"The power of alternate sentencing to cover the hiatus between 14 years and death, cannot be applied by the Sessions Courts. Hence, the sentence of life
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"The constitutional prohibition contained in Article 311(1) is attracted only where the order of dismissal or removal is passed by an authority subordinate in rank to
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"The constitutional prohibition contained in Article 311(1) is attracted only where the order of dismissal or removal is passed by an authority subordinate in rank to
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"The investigating officer or the Special Juvenile Police Unit shall engage the services of an expert in child and adolescent psychiatry/clinical psychology in consultation with
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"The police machinery cannot be utilised for the purpose of holding the husband at ransom so that he could be squeezed by the wife at
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"The investigating officer should not act in haste or take coercive actions in the form of arrest immediately. Such caution, which must necessarily accompany the
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"The two clauses are worded differently, and that difference in wording makes all the difference in law. It is the line of decisions in Sayeed
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"The adjudication by the Controlling Authority with regard to the liability was beyond its jurisdiction, as the only power conferred on the Controlling Authority
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"The proof of demand of illegal gratification, thus, is the gravamen of the offence under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d)(i) and (ii) of the Act and
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"Absence of the original document that is alleged to be forged, by itself, cannot sound the death knell of the prosecution case." Supreme Court, in a significant
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"The consistent view of this Court is to recognise the right of a Hindu widow as blossoming into an absolute right, except in cases that fall
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"The court should be extremely slow, unless the pure legal or jurisdictional considerations are applicable, to issue the anti-suit injunction and thereby stall the proceedings in
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"There must be a chain of circumstances so far complete as not to leave any reasonable ground for a conclusion consistent with the innocence of
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"In our humble view the legislative imprimatur cannot be diluted by the notifications issued by the High Courts." Supreme Court, in an order dated September
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"The investigating agency cannot be prohibited or restrained from seeking warrant of arrest of the appellant or from re-arresting him or seeking his custody/remand." Supreme
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"The statutory power is to ‘try that issue first’. It is not a power merely to decide one issue first after all the issues have
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"Criminal Court while convicting an accused for commission of offence under Section 138 of the Act, cannot ignore the compensatory aspect of remedy and the
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"A contractual engagement by its very nature carries no promise of permanence. It begins with consent and ends by the terms to which the parties
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"The law will come to the aid of a person in peaceful and settled possession by injuncting even a rightful owner from using force or taking
read more
"Review jurisdiction is confined to correcting an error that is apparent on the face of the record — one that is self-evident and does not
read more
"The scrutiny on the subjective opinion or satisfaction of the authorized officer to arrest the person could not be a matter of judicial review, in
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"The doctrine of promissory estoppel cannot be invoked to compel a statutory authority to act contrary to the governing statutory framework or to confer a
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"Section 260-A does not confer a general appellate jurisdiction upon the High Court to reappreciate evidence or substitute its own view for the view concurrently taken
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"It is well settled that the filing of a Suit for eviction under the general law, itself amounts to a notice to quit, upon the
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"The proceeding for declaring the borrower as a wilful defaulter has its source in statute and Reserve Bank of India guidelines. It is substantially independent
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"Once a Court grants ad-interim/interim relief, it is to be necessarily presumed that grant of such ad-interim / interim relief is predicated on the urgency exhibited
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"The existence of a column in a form cannot confer substantive jurisdiction that the parent statute withholds; a Guideline framed by the NMC... must yield
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"The sweeping power of investigation does not warrant subjecting a citizen each time to fresh investigation by the police in respect of the same incident, giving rise
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"Interference is warranted only where the findings are shown to be perverse, based on no evidence, or suffer from manifest illegality resulting in failure of
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"At the stage of framing of charge, the Court is concerned with the existence of strong suspicion and not with proof of guilt." Punjab and
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"It is well settled that where several reliefs are claimed in a plaint, if even one of the reliefs is maintainable, the plaint cannot be
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"The adjudicating authority cannot disregard a subsequent appellate determination which directly bears upon the very issue under adjudication." Delhi High Court, in a ruling dated
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"It is well settled that the vendor/transferor of the impugned deed of transfer is not a necessary party in a proceeding under Section 8 and
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Bombay High Court, in a significant ruling dated 16 September 2026, held that a Municipal Corporation cannot unilaterally cancel Development Rights Certificates (DRCs) issued as compensation
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"Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect rights of action against any person for passing off goods as the goods of another person
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"When an order of interim stay granted by this Court was in force, there was no possibility for the trial Court to proceed further... the
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The Juvenile Justice system in India has evolved significantly over the years, reflecting the changing societal values and international commitments towards the rights of children. The Juvenile
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Cross-examination is a critical component of the adversarial legal system, particularly in India, where it serves as a powerful tool for truth discovery. The process allows the
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In the Indian legal system, judgments play a crucial role in shaping jurisprudence and guiding future cases. These judgments can be classified into two primary categories: reportable and non-reportable.
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The introduction of "The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023", "The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023", and "The Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023" marks a significant milestone in the Indian legal framework,
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